Abstract:Let p be a prime number and ( • p ) be the Legendre symbol modulo p. The Legendre path attached to p is the polygonal path whose vertices are the normalized character sumsIn this paper, we investigate the distribution of Legendre paths as we vary over the primes p such that Q ⩽ p ⩽ 2Q, when Q is large. Our main result shows that as Q → ∞, these paths converge in law, in the space of real-valued continuous functions on [0, 1], to a certain random Fourier series constructed using Rademacher random completely mul… Show more
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